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Showing posts with label Ancient Greece. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ancient Greece. Show all posts
Wednesday, 8 October 2025

80 Gays Around the World: Part 7) Death and Democracy

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Last Time on “80 Gays”: 19) Adonis , although he had several male lovers, is most associated with 20) Aphrodite , a deity famous for her bea...
Sunday, 16 March 2025

80 Gays Around the World: Part 6) Greek Beauties

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Last time on “80 Gays” : 15) Father Markus Furhman (b.1971) became the first openly gay Franciscan “bishop” after ministering in Cologne,...
Sunday, 15 October 2023

(Not Quite) 80 Gays Around the World: Part 5) Monks, Monarchs and Myrrh

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Last time on (Not Quite) 80 Gays: The Art Workshop International was founded by 12) Bea Kreloff (1925-2016) and 13) Edith Isaac Rose (1929...
Wednesday, 15 February 2023

(Not Quite) 80 Gays Around the World: 1) Love in the Stars

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This time last year I began researching for the next edition of my “Around the World in 80 Gays” series. It was my intention to have it comp...
Saturday, 31 December 2022

Happy New Year, Baby

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Now that we’ve come to the end of another year we are bombarded with babies! New Year babies, that is. There’s actually a gay connection bet...
Thursday, 15 July 2021

Dancing With the Spartans

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Not long to go now before the Tokyo Olympics, so I thought I’d take a look at another of the many ancient Greek competitive festivals that I...
Thursday, 15 April 2021

What a Way To Go!

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The covid pandemic has made a lot of us think about death more often, especially, as in my case, close members of your family have passed aw...
Friday, 19 February 2021

Star-Gayzing: The Drag Queen's Crown

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Most of the myths and legends concerning the origins of the constellations come from ancient Greece. The majority of those I’ve covered on t...
Wednesday, 10 February 2021

The 2 Billion Dollar Funeral

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Could this have been the most expensive funeral in history? I haven’t looked closely at all the funerals of all the heads of world powers (i...
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Sunday, 17 January 2021

Star-Gayzing: A Celestial Swansong

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Among the queer legends associated with the stars is one which is represented by two constellations in different parts of the sky. Being obj...
Saturday, 31 October 2020

A Ghostly Warning of Doom

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On previous Hallowe’ens I’ve written about vampires, Frankenstien’s monster and mummies, but not about ghosts. So, how about an lgbt ghost s...
Monday, 26 October 2020

The Two-Formed One

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Can anyone ever be sure of the identity of the first real-life intersex individual in recorded history? Someone who wasn’t a legend, myth or...
Tuesday, 4 August 2020

The Spartan Harvest and the Naked Chase

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Even though our attention should have been on the Olympics at the moment we should remember that there were other festivals in ancient Gre...